Antonio Cicero e a Poética das Ruínas

Abstract

Antonio Cicero’s poetry stages the consciousness of the historical discontinuity between the thinking subject and nature in permanent flux, echoing the allegory of ruins that Walter Benjamin associates with the modern condition. At the same time, however, Cicero conceives poetry as an obsessive search for human community, without which our lives would make no sense in our indifferent and gratuitous universe. (Post)modern construction rather than romantic expression, poetry functions for Cicero as a bridge to the other, beyond the “essential and savage” fragmentation and narcissism of the human condition.